Unit 5: Between Wars - 5.07 Quiz

Unit 5: Between Wars - 5.07 Quiz

1. Question : Which of the following individuals is considered a national hero in Turkey?

Student Answer: Saad Zaghlul   Reza Khan   Ibn Saud   Mustafa Kemal

2. Question : Why were the British so eager to control Egypt after World War I?

Student Answer: They had the most powerful armed forces.   They had plans to install a vast irrigation system in the desert.   They wanted to control the Suez Canal.   They wanted to protect the treasures in the pyramids.

3. Question : Most of the people in the Middle East are Muslim and speak Arabic. Which of the following does this explain?

Student Answer: why the Ottoman Empire controlled most of the region   why the Middle East is often considered a single region   why Great Britain and France were interested in the region   why nationalism and Islamism grew strong in the region

4. Question : Which group of Muslims thought Saudi Arabia should strictly observe Islamic laws and model their society on the way people had lived 1,000 years earlier?

Student Answer: Wahhabists   Muslim Brotherhood   Shia Muslims   Sunni Muslims

5. Question : Which of the following had the greatest effect on the rise of Islamism and nationalism in the Middle East?

Student Answer: the defeat of the Ottoman Empire   foreign domination in the region   the discovery of oil in the region   construction of the Suez Canal

6. Question : Which of the following caused the greatest change in the daily life of the Turkish people in the early twentieth century?

Student Answer: the decrees of the Muslim clerics   the Allied victory in the Great War   Mustafa Kemal's reforms   the Kurdish revolt

7. Question : Which Middle Eastern leader would have been most likely to advocate the following reforms: greater rights for women, state-run schools, and minimal participation of the clergy in government?

Student Answer: Hasan al-Banna   Ibn Saud   Taha Husayn   Reza Khan

8. Question : Which of the following statements most accurately describes the goal of the Zionists?

Student Answer: Zionists wanted to control the hill in Jerusalem known as Zion.   Zionists wanted to control the Middle East.   Zionists wanted to establish a homeland for the Jews in Palestine.   Zionists wanted to establish a home for the Wahhabists in Iraq.

9. Question : Where did the nationalistic goals of Arabs and Jews come into the greatest conflict?

Student Answer: Iraq   Egypt   Palestine   Turkey

10. Question : Which of the following statements about the Muslim Brotherhood is most accurate?

Student Answer: It denounced non-Muslims and wanted the government to adhere to strict Islamic law.   It encouraged foreign investment but wanted the government to respect Islamic law.   It was an ancient brotherhood that faded away with the Ottoman Empire.   It promoted Islam but wanted a constitution that separated church and state.